U.S. News & World Report, the magazine that all the colleges try to please to boost their rankings, has a blog called PaperTrail. A few weeks ago, PaperTrail’s Elizabeth Green launched a poll that sought to find the best alternative media outlet of 2006. The candidates? Our very own Wesleying, two Harvard blogs, a Vanderbilt blog, and one each from Columbia and Ball State. Needless to say, Wesleying trounced the others, garnering 45% of the final tally. As part of the article, U.S. News & World Report says:
The blog has expanded its scope since [its founding], breaking news and acting as a cheerleader for Wesleyan’s proudly “weird” culture. [Co-founder Holly] Wood and company covered the administration’s surprise decision to paint over years of graffiti on an underground tunnel system seven days before the campus bi-weekly, the Argus. Wesleying jumped into the fight, too, siding with a popular Facebook group called “Keep Wesleyan Weird” and endorsing a graffiti artist’s declaration that the administration had wiped out “decades” of history.
The best part is that, as contributors to Wesleying, Mad and I have our pictures in the article. w00t!
